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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The towne and castell of Domme were so strong of themselues, and so well prouided of men of warre that were appointed to the gard of the same, with the lord thereof called sir Robert de Domme, that after the English capteins perceiued they should but lose time to linger about the winning of that towne, they raised their siege, and marching further into the countrie, wan Gauaches, Freins, Rochmador, and Uille Franche, vpon the marches of Toulouzain, greatlie to the displeasure of the duke of Aniou that lay at the same time in the citie of Toulouze, & could not remedie the matter. ¶But to recite euerie par|ticular enterprise, as the same was atchiued by the English capteins and men of warre in that season, it should be more than the purpose of this volume might permit, and therefore I passe ouer diuerse things, which I find registred by Froissard and other writers, onelie aduertising you, that as the English|men thus made sore warres against their aduersa|ries abroad in those quarters: so the Frenchmen on the other part had assembled great numbers of men of warre, not onelie to defend their frontiers, but al|so by inuasions to win from the Englishmen towns and castels, and to wa [...]t such countries as would not turne to their side. Thus were all those countries in troubles of warre.Aquitaine full of warre.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The two kings also of England and France, sig|nified to their neighbours the causes of this warre, laieng the fault either to other, and excusing them|selues as cleare and innocent therein. Edward duke of Gelderland, nephue to the king of England, as sonne to his sister, and the duke of Gulike cousine to the kings children by their mother that was daugh|ter to the earle of Heinault, tooke great despite that the French king had broken the peace, as they were throughlie persuaded, and that he had defied king Edward (as before yee haue heard.) Wherevpon they sent their defiance vnto the French king, threatning to be reuenged on him to the vttermost of their pow|ers.The duke of Bauier. Duke Albert of Bauier, was once minded also to haue aided king Edward in this warre: but af|terwards such persuasions were vsed on the French kings part, that he chose to remaine as neuter be|twixt them both, refusing to take anie part.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Among the soldiers also called companions, which serued the prince in this season, there were three cap|teins, right hardie and verie expert men of warre, Ortigo, Bernard de Wiske, & Bernard de la Sale. These thrée remaining as then in Limosin, hearing that [...]he duke of Burbons mother, which was also mother to the French queene, la [...]e within the castell of Belleperch in Burbonnois,The duke of Burbons mo|ther taken. with a small compa|nie about hir, rode thither in one daie and a night, so that in the morning they approched the castell, scaled it, and tooke it, with the ladie within it. And though they were after besieged in the same castell by the duke of Burbon and other Frenchmen, yet they de|fended it, till the earls of Cambridge and Penbroke, with fiftéene hundred speares, and three thousand of other men of warre, came and offered the French|men battell, lodging afore them fifteene daies. And when they perceiued that the Frenchmen would not issue out of the bastide (in which they laie) to giue battell, the earles of Cambridge and Penbroke cau|sed all them within the castell to come foorth, and to bring with them the duches of Burbon, whome they led awaie in sight of hir sonne, leauing the castell void and free for him to enioy.

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